Iridient Developer vs Lightroom – A Detailed Comparison
You may have heard of this Iridient Developer RAW converter if you’re a Fuji shooter. If you haven’t, it’s something worth checking out. I’ve been using Iridient for the last few…
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Classic Chrome – Raw vs Jpeg FujiX100T
Out of curiosity I wanted to see how the FujiX100T manipulated images between JPEG and RAW when using the new Classic Chrome color profile.
At first I would have thought that they would be almost indistinguishable or at least extremely close. After all, why would a JPEG image look any different than the RAW with Classic Chrome? The profile is built by the same company using the same curves. But the results are actually surprising.
4 Ways to Improve Your HDR Photography Before Tone Mapping
Are you looking for ways to improve your HDR photography? Are you wondering where in your HDR workflow you are making mistakes?
Chances are there are a few steps you're completely overlooking, and they happen before you even start.
I've compiled a list of four techniques you need to use for every HDR photo before tone mapping.
Best SD Memory Cards For The Fuji x100T, X-E2, X30
I've ordered all the most popular memory cards and have tested their speeds with the Fuji X100T. Here are the results.
10 Reasons Why Your HDR Photos Suck
Have you noticed that HDR photography is often criticized on the web? That’s because it’s hard. From shooting to processing, a lot can go wrong, and it usually does. The sad reality…
Save Your Skies With Luminosity Masks
Often times when shooting sunsets you'll find the area just around the sun gets blown out by the intense light. It's important to bring down those highlights to help avoid lost colors and pixels in your images which will also help give you a much deeper rendering of both colors in the highlights.
How To Reduce Rolling Shutter With The Sony A7s
If you've purchased and been shooting with the Sony A7s, you may have noticed that it has one of the worst rolling shutters ever in a full-frame camera.
It's so bad, in fact, that it really limits you to making landscape travel videos with a twiddly little music bed that you'll likely only post on Vimeo—after you color-grade it to look like an Instagram photo, of course.
How To Install ICC Printer Profiles In Lightroom
As a landscape, wedding, or fine art photographer it's likely you're having your prints done at a color lab like Bay Photo, EZ Prints, or Loxly.
But did you know you can first check your photos against their printer's ICC profile with the Soft Proof feature in Adobe Lightroom? Here's how you can do it.
Why You Should Avoid Shooting With Small Apertures
Typically as photographers, we are taught, the smaller the aperture the sharper and crisper your image is going to be.
You ever go online and look at an awesome photo's EXIF data? You ever notice almost all the landscape and hdr photos you see will be shot at f16 or higher?
If you're always shooting high apertures for your landscape photos, you should really consider dialing back and learning your lenses. Especially if you're shooting on a camera with a high pixel density sensor like the Sony A7r, or many of the new APS-C systems.
A Better Way To Create Luminosity Masks
I see a lot of techniques floating around the interwebs on how to practice the ancient art of Luminosity Masks for landscape photography in Photoshop. I’m pretty sure most of…